US OIL Elliott Wave Technical Analysis – 11th December, 2014

Summary: A third wave is underway. Corrections are brief and shallow. The new target is at 54.05. Only a clear breach of the pink channel on the daily chart would indicate that the downwards trend is being interrupted by an upwards correction.

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The bigger picture sees US Oil in a super cycle second wave correction unfolding as a huge zigzag. Within the zigzag cycle wave a subdivides best as a five, indicating a zigzag, and cycle wave b is a complete double zigzag.

Within intermediate wave (3) no second wave correction may move beyond the start of its first wave above 107.67.

Cycle wave c is most likely to end when price finds support at the lower edge of the large channel.

Intermediate wave (3) has now moved far enough beyond the end of intermediate wave (1) to move the invalidation point down. Intermediate wave (4) to come may not move back into intermediate wave (1) price territory above 91.76.

Minor wave 3 is not over, and minor wave 4 to follow it should be brief and shallow. Along the way down to the target for intermediate wave (3) to end I now expect a continuation of strong downwards movement with shallow and brief corrections interrupting it. The pink channel is a best fit channel: draw the first trend line from the lows labelled minute waves i to iii, then place a parallel copy on the high labelled subminuette wave ii. This channel is nicely showing where upwards movement is finding resistance. The channel is being breached to the downside by a strong fifth wave, typical of commodities.

Only when this channel is breached by upward movement would I expect that the downwards trend is over for the mid term. At that stage I would expect that intermediate wave (3) would be over and intermediate wave (4) would have begun.

hi Lara… all targets have already been met…. fantastic analysis i must say. Now do you think we are about to complete 3rd wave down? Looks like a final fall is pending, may be in the form of 5th of 5th of 3rd???

For me the wave count looks complete now. In my last post I made mistake regarding the lenght of the first wave of this final 5. It was 4,58 long. So the wave that has just been formed is 1,6 the lenght of wave 1. Also, it is easy to count complete 5 waves, with 3 wave extended. Wave 2 was finished where wave 5 of 1 began. This is typical of extended 5.

We are now in potentially pivotal point. On the lower band of the price channel within current wave. What’s more it is third day of this movement. The last two waves lasted for 3 days. What is more still, it has dropped already by 7,25 points. The first wave was 7,29.
I see it this way: If the upper band of the channel is broken, we are most likely in the correction (wave 4) already. If the price drops once again, we are kicking the can (the barrel) down the road (wave 3) for two more days and 4,5 points.
This is idealised but so far it moves so.

Expanding triangle that emerged is now finished and one should expect further downward movement. My goal is 49,90-49-60 as a bottom of the next small wave. It looks like this triangle was only the 2 wave of the final 5 of (3). So we can expect to slide to 30s as well. 2,618 x wave 1 lenght = 2,618*8,65 = 22,65. That moves the target as low as 34,87. No need to fight the trend.

I actually follow Cl.F. It moves more harmonically. Not only the triangle looks perfect but it holds 3-days time frame. Also, during break out price drew perfect 3-5-3 correction in 1-minute interval. First wave of the current 5th wave was 7,29 points…
The second picture depicts price action during break out from triangle in 1-minute interval.

as we move down the (5) in a seesaw movements, the queston arises where is the bottom and how to count the minor waves within (5). I think the most likely option is the first scenario pictured below. But the second scenario looks good for me as well. I like to think that (5) is diagonal triangle. It would suit well because of the huge wave (3). Nice thing about my scenarios is that they see minor wave 4 in the same place. So we are approaching the final final wave 5. So 5 of (5) of 3. Wave 4 should be rather massive.

Lara now that wave (3) is about to complete what is to be expected of wave (4) in terms of amount and duration.?
Will it have fib relation of wave (2)?
Wave (2) duration and amount were 6 months and $16 respectively.

WOW !!! EW counts worked very well in oil. Superb job. All targets have reached or exceeded.